Joseph

A dissertation. Completely an apprentice-level piece. No scientific value.
The author cites (at the beginning) Hobson ("Imperialism") and takes from him the most well-known material.
The author speaks, as a fact, about
2 words about Japanese and Russian imperialism (p. 39 at the end).

p. 43: "Imperialism in practice means striving to obtain the keys of the world, - but not military keys, as in the times of the Roman Empire, but great economic and commercial keys. This means striving not toward the rounding out of territory, but toward the seizure and occupation of major nodal points through which world trade passes; striving not for large colonies, but for colonies favorably situated so as to cover the globe with a continuous dense network of stations, coal depots, and cables" (quotation from de Lapradelle. "Imperialism and Americanism in the United States." "Revue du droit public." 1900, vol. XIII, pp. 65-6. Cited in Patuye, p. 43).

"Thus the war over Cuba was a war economic in the sense that it had as its aim the seizure of the sugar market of the island; in the same way the cause of the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines was the desire to seize the coffee and sugar produced by these tropical countries" (p. 51). (Idem, pp. 62-3)...

"So then, the conquest of markets, the pursuit of tropical products - that is the basic cause of this policy of colonial expansion, which is called imperialism. All these colonies will also serve as excellent strategic points, the significance of which we shall indicate: ...in order to secure for themselves Asian markets... they needed points of support"... (p. 64).

% of exports from the United States

Much, a mass of indications about the forthcoming struggle over the Pacific Ocean
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Hawaiian Islands—

The war with Spain over Cuba was justified by interests
sic!

The Constitution requires equality of all taxes etc. in all United States. "Interpreted" it as

To the United States of America "Germany" (sic) wants to "set against the United States of Europe" (p. 205)...

..."Starting from 1897, Wilhelm II repeatedly expressed the idea of a policy of unification to struggle against overseas competition, - a policy based on a European customs agreement, a kind of continental blockade, directed against the United States"... (205) ..."In France the creation of a European customs union was preached by Paul Leroy-Beaulieu" (206)...

United States
of Europe
(and Wilhelm II)

..."An agreement between European states will perhaps be one of the happy results of American imperialism" (206).

In America events provoked a struggle

"When the white man governs himself, this is self-government; when he governs himself and at the same time governs others, this is no longer self-government, this is despotism"* (272).

Chapter III, p. 293, bears the title: "The Contemporary Politics of the United States: the union of imperialism and the Monroe Doctrine"

South Americans rise up (p. 311 ff.) against that interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine, that America is for North Americans. They fear the United States and desire independence. The United States has "designs" on South America and struggles with

(Cf. from Novikov's bibliographical indications, see especially **,)

* See V. I. Lenin. Works, 4th ed., vol. 22, p. 274. Ed.
** See the present volume, p. 189. Ed.

In annexing the Philippines, the United States deceived the leader Aguinaldo, promising the country freedom (p. 373): "the annexation was qualified as 'the deception of chauvinists'"*.

In South America a striving toward develops

The growth of ties with Spain, its influence, "Latin" sympathies etc. (**)

sic!

p. 379: "The epoch of national wars, it seems, has now passed"...
(wars over markets etc.)

NB

(**) Slogan: "Spanish-American union."